RIDER aims to develop an innovative information system to optimize energy efficiency at the level of a building or buildings complex. The system will provide needed functions for an intermediary optimization, between existing devices in the building and devices managed by the distribution service operator. This system will allow energy exchanges, including conventional energy, renewable energy and fatal energy (heat generated by industrial process).

Smart Electricity aimed at developing, testing and improving a smart electric board solution in 7 average French households. The project last 4 years with 2 years of actual experimentation. The smart electric board features sensors, actuators and embedded chips that can be accessed remotely. With the development of an energy management software solution, this system enabled users to have real-­?time access to their consumption datas and to remotely control their personal devices. Resulted substantial domestic energy savings. The project was divided into five different working packages.

COOPERaTE will develop an open, scalable neighbourhood service and management platform that integrates local monitoring and control functions with a cloud based service platform for the delivery of innovative energy management, security and other services in order to progress towards energy positive neighbourhoods and achieving 2020 targets.

The objective of this research proposal is to bring time awareness and evolution into the design of System-of-Systems (SoS), to establish a sound conceptual model, a generic architectural framework and a design methodology, supported by some prototype tools, for the modeling, development and evolution of time-sensitive SoSes with possible emergent behaviours. Special emphasis is placed on evolution, emergence, dependability (e.g. safety, availability) and security, considering embedded devices and the cloud as the execution platform.

The e-DASH project aims at the harmonization of electricity demand in Smart Grids for sustainable integration of electric vehicles. This is addressed by an intelligent charging system supported with real-time exchange of charge related data between EVs and the grid. Adopting the e-DASH approach allows high current fast-charging for large numbers of EVs in a brand-independent way and price-adaptive charging/reverse-charging at optimum price for the customer leading to increased desirability of EVs. In order to prevent damages of costly EV batteries, sophisticated charge control is inevitable.

PowerUp aims to develop the Vehicle-2-Grid (V2G) interface, involving a full development cycle of physical/link-layer specification, charging control protocol design, prototyping, conformance testing, field trials, and standardisation. Its results will ensure that EVs smoothly integrate into emerging smart-grid networks. Thereby the efficiencies resulting from robust grid operation may be achieved; V2G capabilities will smoothen the daily fluctuation of electricity demand and will enable EVs to act as emergency energy supplies.

The RESILIENT project aims to design, develop, install and assess the energy and environmental benefits of a new integrated concept of interconnectivity between buildings, DER, grids and other networks at a district level. The RESILIENT approach will combine different innovative technologies including smart ICT components, optimized energy generation and storage technologies, also for RES, integrated to provide real time accounts of energy demand and supply at a district level and assist in decision-making process.

The aim of EGUISE project is to develop an ecosystem which can be able to manage intelligently the energy and services related to the charging operations for a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles. This ecosystem is based on: a)For energy management, a new charging infrastructure will incorporate an innovative technologies such as the contactless power transfer or bidirectional energy transfer.

The Afficheco project aimed at observing and analysing the behaviour of households equipped with in?home energy consumption displays. The originality of this project was in the importance which had been given to behaviour and sociological analyses. Multiple interviews of 25 households have been carried out over a relatively long period of time (12 to 18 months). The data visualisation was organised in several categories of uses: heating, cooling, hot water, electric plugs, lighting, ...

The project ENDORSE aims at a user-driven development of downstream services in renewable energies by exploiting the GMES Core Services (MACC, SAFER and Geoland 2) together with other EO/in-situ data and modelling. It addresses regional services promoting the energy use from sun, wind, and biomass, electricity grid management and building engineering through day lighting in buildings.